# Unit ed Sta tes Cou rt of Appeals For the Seventh Circui t Chic ago, I lli nois 60604 Submi tte d Janu ary 23, 2014 * Deci ded Janu ary 23, 2014

Before JOEL M. FLAU M, Circ uit Judge DANIEL A. MANIO N, Circ uit Judge MICHAEL S . KANNE, Circ uit Judge No. 13-1994 UNITED STATES OF AMERI CA, Plaintiff-Appellee,

v. LARRY D. LOVETT, Defen dant-Appellant

. Appeal from the United Stat es Di stric t Court for t he Sout hern Di stric t of Illinoi s. No. 3:07CR30099-002-DRH Davi d R. Herndon, Chief Ju dge

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O R D E R Larr y Lov ettappeals fro m the deni al of hi s moti on for a r educed s entence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2). H e based hi s moti on on amendments to the sentenci ng guid eli nes that r etr oactively lowered t he base offense level for many crimesinvolv i ng crack cocaine. See U.S.S .G. App. C, vol. I II 374–85, 391–98, 416–21 (2011). The di stric t court NON PRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION To be ci ted only i n acc or dance w i th Fed. R. App. P. 32.1

After exami ning the briefsand record, we have concluded that or al argument is * unnec essary. Thus, the appeal i s submi tte d on the briefs and record. See F E D . R. A P P . P. 34(a)( 2)(C).No. 13-1994 Page 2

conclu ded that Lov ett ’s i mpri sonment range was not affected by the amendments and deni ed the motion. We affi rm the dis tr i ct court’s or der. Love tt pleaded g ui lty in 2009 to conspi racy and subs tantive counts of posses sing and di strib uti ng crack and powder cocai ne. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846. Th e di stric t court concluded that Lov etti s a career offender and, followi ng the directi ve o f U.S.S .G. § 4B1.1(b) , calc ulated a base offen se level of 37 under thatgui deline and 34 un der t he Chapter 2 g ui deline for dr ug offenses, see id. § 2D1.1. As requi red by § 4B1.1, the court used the hi gher number and a cri minal hi stor y categ or y of VI t o calcul ate an i mpri sonment range o f 262 to 327 months, sentencing Lov ettto 276 mo nths. When the gov ernment later moved for a sentence reducti on, ostensibly under Feder al Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b), the di stric t courtshortened Lo vet t’s pris on ter m to 228 months; thi s i s a fu ll year belo w the statutor y mi ni mumgiven the amount of crack and the in formation fi led by the go ver nment establi shing a prior felony dr ug convic tion. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)( A)(vi i ), 851. The di stric t courtcorr ectly deni ed Love tt’ s moti on i n thi s cas e. The court lacked jurisdi cti on to reduce hi s sen tence under § 3582(c) (2) b ecaus e, as the court r ecognized, the amendments di d not lower hi s i mpri sonment range. See United S tat es v. Davis , 682 F.3d 596, 610–11 (7th Cir. 2012); United S tat es v. Forman , 553 F.3d 585, 589 (7th Cir. 2009). Love tt’ s range was bas ed on the career -offender gui deline, but the amendmen ts left that gui deline untouched, providing no basi s for a reduced sentence. See Un ited States v. Williams , 694 F.3d 917, 918–19 (7th Cir. 2012); United S tat es v. Griffi n , 652 F.3d 793, 803 (7th Ci r. 2011). Indeed, the conspi racy involved mor e than a kilogram of crack, so t he amendmen ts di d not ev en effec t Lov ett ’s bas e offense level under § 2D1.1(c ). Compare U.S.S .G. § 2D1.1( c)( 3) (2008) , with id. § 2D1.1(c )(3) (2012). St i ll, Lovet t ar gues (and the gove rnment concedes) that, in h i ndsi ght, it i s now clear that his prior convic tion for possess i on of a contr olled subs tance was incorre ctly clas si fi ed i n the presentence repo rtas poss essi on wi th i ntent t o deliver, and thus he i s not a caree r o ffender after all. Fo r that reason, he ins i sts, hi s § 3582(c )(2) motion sh ould have been gr anted. But this arg ument i s beyond the scope of § 3582(c) (2). The amendmen ts say nothin g about when to classi fy a defendant as a c areer offender, and § 3582(c) (2) does not open the doo r t o r econsi dering sen tencing deci si ons that could have been challenged on di rect appeal. See Di llon v. Un ited States , 130 S. Ct . 2683, 2694 (2010); United S tat es v. Jackso n , 573 F.3d 398, 400 (7th Cir. 2009). AFFIRMED

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